Starting up in India? Get your people strategy right

In the course of our work in India, we partner with startups across the maturity spectrum on a range of issues. The business challenges they describe focus on three key elements- monetisation of the business model, expansion of the customer base and securing the next round of funding. What is usually missing however, is focus on the people/talent strategy requirements to scale the business. Even when it has mind space with founders, it is largely centered on operational elements like quick fire hiring or compensation levels. This is different from our experience with more mature companies where talent/people issues are regularly amongst the top 3 to 4 issues identified by CEOs and CXOs as future business risks. Read more